Graft Probes Sweep Nation Amid Reform Efforts
Widespread investigations unfold across federal and state levels as multiple committees seek to expose graft and corruption. New York leads with police and public corruption probes sparked by the Rosenthal case and ongoing aldermanic and grand jury actions.
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United States
Department of Human Activity
New York State
William*-Sulzer
New York City
Rosenthal
Becker
Supreme Court
Goff
Grand Jury
McClellan
John Purroy Mitchel
Board of Aldermen
Gaynor
Raymond B. Fosdick
Mitchel
Fosdick
Committee of Citizens
Federal investigations expand under Congress scrutiny
The United States government pursues numerous inquiries across agencies to aid legislation and public welfare. Major probes include the Pujo money trust study, banking and currency reforms, tariff hearings, ocean shipping trust, campaign funds review, and railroad wreck analyses along with infant mortality research by the new Federal Children's Bureau.
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New York Times
Washington
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Money Trust
Pujo
National Bankin
Banking and Currency Committee
Carter Glass
Virginia
United States
Ways and Means Committee
House
Ocean Shipping Trust
House Committee On Merchant Marine
Senate
Moses W. Clapp
Minnesota
Standard Oil
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Federal Children's Bureau
Rules Committee
House of Representatives
A. M. C. Co. Brand In Groceries Advertisement
The A. M. C. Co. brand in groceries offers canned and glassed goods noted for standard quality. Advertisement by Acker Merrall & Condit Co. promotes the line as his best.
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Acker, Merrall & Condit Co
Indians Defy Sheriff in Colorado Mountain Stand
Fifty Ute Indians, enraged by a rifle duel killing of a Mexican sheep herder, occupy the Ute mountains in southwest Colorado and resist Sheriff of Montezuma County and Indian Agent Spear. The sheriff plans a posse of fifty and may seek militia support if Big Rabbit is not surrendered. Stichel the herder was shot after defending his herd.
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Cortez
Ute
Colorado
Mentezuma County
Spear
Big Rabbit
Joseph Stichel
Stichel
Steel trust dissolution rumors swirl among Pittsburgh brokers
Word spreads that talks in New York may seek voluntary dissolution of United States Steel Corporation with federal approval. Carnegie officials Dinkey and Bope are the company’s Pittsburgh spokesmen. Officials deny any plan and dismiss the reports as unfounded. Judge Gary is away. Lindabury refutes the rumor.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Trust
Dinkey
Bope
Carnegie Steel Company
New York
Gov. Wilson
Steel Trust not planning voluntary dissolution says Justice
In Washington on January 18 the Department of Justice said no knowledge of any intent by the Steel Trust to dissolve voluntarily. Judge E H Gary of United States Steel Corporation was in town and dined with Secretary MacVeagh but had not yet returned to his hotel by late evening.
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New York Times
Washington
Department of Justice
Steel Trust
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Poor Men Best Citizens Says Bartlett at Banking Banquet
A C Bartlett president of Hibbard Spencer Bartlett told Chicago’s American Institute of Banking that rich men are not America’s best citizens. He praised modest earners and urged focus on clean business as the path to real success. He spoke at the twelfth annual Chicago Chapter banquet at the LaSalle Hotel.
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New York Times
Chicago
A. C. Bartlett
Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett Company
American Institute of Banking
America
Bartlett
Hotel LaSalle
Mr. Bartlett
Cannon Advice in Farewell Speech Upholds Monroe Doctrine
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois spoke in Washington on January 18 as he neared retirement, defending the Monroe Doctrine, the Philippines, the Panama Canal, and a strong navy to protect American interests. He warned against abandoning the Philippines and argued for robust arms and credits to deter European influence.
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New York Times
Washington
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
House of Representatives
Tme
Danville
United States
Republic
Mr. Cannon
Democratic Party
Philippine Islands
William Jennings Bryan
Philippines
Jeader
Paris
Mr. Bryan
Hercules
Nessus
Panama Canal
Spain
Mexico
Europe
Sons of Texas
Maximilian
Miracle Madonna Picture Moves Eyes In South Bethlehem
In South Bethlehem on January 18 a public school teacher Miss Kate Fox reports a miracle as a Madonna picture in her home appears to move its eyes. Crowds gather as locals and foreign-born residents react. a priest later takes the picture, saying a lithographic printing quirk caused the motion.
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New York Times
Bethlehem
Penn
Kate Fox
Fox
Miss Fox
Night Out to Florida by Penna and ACL
Advertisement notes a single night service to Florida via Pennsylvania and Atlantic Coast Line with four daily trains at 9 15 AM 12 38 noon 3 34 and 9 30 PM. Pullmans are electric lighted and priced through 1218 Broadway.
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Florida
Penna
Atlantic Coast Line
Broadway
Adyr
Mardi Gras New Orleans Round Trip Train Ticket Sale
Advertisement notes a round trip from New Orleans via a railway company for 37 dollars. Tickets go on sale January 2 and run through February 2. Three trains daily. Office location at 264 Fifth Ave near 29th Street.
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Mardi Gras
New Orleans
N Railway
N. Y
Fifth Av
Cor
29Th St
South Aiken
Augusta
Asheville
Florida
Southern Railway
New York
Miss Helen Gould's Beautiful Fatare at Lyndhurst
The Sunday Times features Miss Helen Gould in a display at Lyndhurst. Central Park winter scenes and New York society costumes are highlighted along with art from the Morgan Collection.
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Helen Gould
Lyndhurst
New York
Princesa Patricia
Connaught
Central Park
Bronx “‘Zoo
Wisconsin
New Capitol
New York Society
Troops Seize Buffalo Pier Held by Railroad
Acting under War Department orders, Company B of the Twenty-ninth Infantry took possession of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western pier at Buffalo’s harbor mouth. The railroad claims the land as government land, while the United States cites long occupancy and ownership. The pier extends about 1,000 feet along the harbor entrance and houses a large coal trestle used by the railroad.
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Buffalo
N. Y
War Department
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Fort Porter
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company
Buffalo River
Washington
Lackawanna Pier
Department of Justice
Railroad Company
United States
Stimson
Wickersham
R. T. Strickland
Department
Convicted Brooklyn Banker Faces Sentence In Grand Larceny Case
Broc R. Shears former President of the Borough Bank was found guilty of grand larceny after a two day trial before Justice Crane and a Brooklyn jury. He faces sentencing Monday at Raymond Street Jail where he remains in custody. The verdict followed misappropriation of a 3334.44 check drawn on the Borough Bank and diverted to the Crescent Mortgage Company.
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Justice Crane
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Broc R. Shears
Borough Bank
Shears
Raymond Street
Crane
Hollis Park Company
Crescent Mortgage Company
Thomas F. Martin
Lincoln Place
Herman H. Locke
Fifty-eighth Street
Borough
Mechanics’ Bank
Banking Department
Mechanics
Robert H. Elder
Jamestown
N.Y
War on High School Secret Societies Proceeds in Chicago
Dean Walter T. Sumner leads the boards crackdown suspending over 200 students with plans to exceed 1,000. he vows no compromise and hints at court action. Superintendent Mrs. Ella Flagg Young supports strict enforcement as societies continue Proms despite orders.
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New York Times
Chicago
Walter T. Sumner
Board of Education
Oost
Dean Sumner
Ella Flagg Young
Tariff hearings progress with nine schedules disposed
Washington January 18 The House Ways and Means Committee continued tariff hearings begun January 6. Nine of fourteen schedules have been disposed of and next week the agricultural cotton flax hemp and jute schedules will be taken up. Members discussed evidence and consulted Senators on arguments. The notice ends with travel advertising for The Famous Resorts and Southern Railway services.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Prince of Monaco Bans Parsifal Performance in Monte Carlo
The Prince of Monaco has forbidden Wagner's Parsifal at Monte Carlo next week following protests by a French authors committee backed by Wagner heirs. Pierre de Courcelle led the appeal, and the Prince consented to prevent the performance.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Prince of
Monaco
Wagner
Monte Carlo
Pierre de Courcelle
Burglars Loot Homes Of Hunter James And Perry
In Stamford Connecticut on January 18 burglars entered unoccupied homes of Robert Hunter Socialist lecturer George James Brooklyn businessman and Robert Perry New York lawyer. Police cannot yet determine stolen value. Hunter family at Pinehurst was notified and will return promptly. Mrs Hunter is daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes. Burglar visit was quiet and unnoticed by nearby superintendent and family.
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New York Tr.s. Stamford
Reward to Seminole for aiding Berkshire in gale rescue
The Seminole of the United States revenue cutter service will receive a silver service as a reward for aiding the steamer Berkshire. Capt. Carden commanded the Seminole as it steamed 120 miles through a gale after a wireless call off Cape Lookout on October 18 to save Berkshire and its cargo worth $500,000 from fire. Carden asked permission to accept the gift.
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Wilmington
N. C
Seminole
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Berkshire
Carden
Cape Lookout
Mayor Shanks Arrested In Indianapolis Speeding Case
Indianapolis January 18 Mayor Samuel Shanks was arrested on a warrant charging speeding. Bond set at 250 dollars. Justice Teal questioned the bond validity as a constable guarded the mayor amid an anti speed crusade that led to the arrest of Attorney Edward Little’s son.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Samuel Shanks
Edward Little
Mrrs
Shanks
Justice of the Peace Teal
Attorney Little
Lumberjack shoots constable then kills himself in chase
Harry Robertson, a lumberjack, shot and killed Constable Maurice D. Bean in Passadumkeag Maine. Hours later, after a fifteen mile pursuit through woods, Robertson died by suicide when cornered by a posse. Bean was attempting to arrest him on a charge of forging orders for camp supplies.
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Passadrumkeag
Harry Robertson
Maurice D. Bean
Robertson
Bean
Houghton Receives Increased Senate Payout To Eight Thousand
Senator Martine urged reconsideration and the Senate voted to boost the payment to Miss Alice V. Houghton from four thousand two hundred to eight thousand dollars. Two thousand to be paid now and seventy five dollars monthly thereafter. the arrangement cannot be attached.
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New York Times
Washington
James E. Martine
New Jersey
Senate
Alice V. Houghton
Killed by an Automobile on East Eighty-Third Street
William Van der Wall, a cigarmaker of 324 East Eighty-fifth Street, was struck and killed while crossing East Eighty-third Street at First Avenue. The car owned by Miss Markert of 503 Riverside Drive and driven by Joseph Smith of 1384 Second Avenue, reportedly struck him as he crossed from east to west, with Smith claiming he was briefly confused and the victim rushed into the path. Smith reported to the police and was released.
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Wiliam van der Wall
East Eighty-fifth Street
East Eighty-third Street
First Avenue
Miss Markert
Riverside Drive
Joseph Smith
Second Avenue
Smith
Third Avenue
Tremont Avenue
Jacob Erbe
East 176Th Street
Fordhusy Hospital
Stamford
Max Eilesberg
Colonial Bank
Sixty-sixth Street
Broadway
Marg
John Deckier
Richard Brackwell
Clarence Winthrop Bowen
East Sixty-third Street
Hudson Street Hospital
Livingston
Deckler
Haberdashery
Weber & Heilbroner
Spruce
Nassau Streets
Knox Automobile Company
United Cigar Stores
Flatiron
Twenty-third Street
William Schapzlim
Skillman Street
Brooklyn
Harry Dandy
West Twenty-fifth Street
Dixon
New York
Fifty-second Street
Alexander Forsetin
Fifty-eighth Street
Mack & Sauer, Auto Supplies
Demerest & Co
May Lose Divorce Colony
Reno Nevada on January 18 1924 The Nevada Legislature faces a turbulent opening as divorce reform and woman suffrage loom. Gov Oddie Republican pushes radical change including longer residence periods for court jurisdiction in civil actions such as divorce filings.
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Neo York Times
Reno
Nev
Nevada
Oddie
Seaboard Florida Limited schedule information
The Seaboard Florida Limited runs from Lys, N Y to Palm Beach arriving 3:35 PM and continues to Tampa 6:00 PM and Orlando 6:05 PM the next day with other resorts on its rapid route.
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The
Seaboard Florida Limited
Be&st IN
Lys
N. Y
Palm Beach
Tampa
Orlando
Adr
78 Mile Gale Leaves Death In Its Wake In The Bronx
A 78 mile per hour gale strikes New York causing deaths and injuries. Big electric signs torn, windows smashed, and fires started as residents take cover. Several pedestrians, including Mrs. James Heard of Summit New Jersey and Martha Kane, are seriously hurt, with multiple collisions and property damage reported across Manhattan.
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New York
Weather Bureau
James Heard
Woodland Avenue
Summit
N.J
Broadway
Seventy-second Street
Milton Goldschmidt
West
178Th Street
Ryan
Lenox Avenue
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Topkins
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Richard V. Lindabury
J.P. Morgan & Co
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T.eenee Eee
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Republic Theatre
V. Magazine
Canada
Russia
China
Prigtte
Philadelphia
Tripoli
Napoleon IlIla
Austria-Hungary
Roger W. Babson
Bers
E. J. L. Gould
Gari Melchers
Mr. Morgan
Metropolitan
Teachers College
Burns
Hr. Mayer
Stanislaw Wyspianski
Schiller
Fiona Macleod
Goose
Bernard Shaw
Stephen Phillips
Watts
Music
Automobile
Times Square Theatre
Commissioner Johnson
Growtha Williamsburg
Jersey Central
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Lackawanna
At Buffalo
Madison Square Garden
White Company
B. R. Shears
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Robert Hunter
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